Improvement in seedi ng-hoes



z. B. BROWN.

` Hand-Seeder.

No. 30,526. Patented Oct. 30,- 1860.

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N.PETERS. PHUTWLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. 0 C.

UNITEI) STATES PATENT OEEIcilr-O ZERAH B. BROWN, OF SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING-HOES.

Specifica-tion forming part of Letters Patent No. 30,526, dated October 30, 1860.@A

To all 'whom it may concern Beit knownthat I, Z. B. BROWN, ot' Simsbury, county of Hartford, and State ot' Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specification and drawings.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the tigures.

In the accompanying drawings, d is a box or receptacle for holding the seed, and is secured to the handle b of the hoe in a proper manner by the use of screws or their equivalents. In the lower end ot' said box is arranged a device for adjusting and dealing out the seed from the seed-box d in the desired quantity, asection otl which is seen at A.

e is a sliding bar, nearly in the center of which is fitted an elastic plate,f, one end of which is turned down through the aperture g, being ot the same width (of the aperture) and even with the under side thereoand forms one side ofthe said aperture g. On the other end of the said plate fis formed a stop, h, which resists the action of the spring k and keeps it (the platef) in its place, except when the sliding bar c is thrown forward to drop the seed. It (the stop 7L) strikes against the side of the box d just as the aperture g, containing the seed, passes out ofthe box d, contracts the spring k, and enlarges the aperture g, so as to allow the seed to drop freely therefrom, which otherwise might be clogged and fail to drop.

fis an adjustable slide fixed in the outer end of the bar e, its inner end being turned down and forming one side ot' the aperture g, bythe use of which the amount ot' seed re quiredv to be dropped at a time is regulated.

k is a spring used for the purpose of keeping the bar e back with its aperture g within the seed-box al.

I propose to use a wheel or angle-crank on the handle at l, so as to secure a free and easy action ofthe parts by means of a cord or wire connection, m, from the end of the bar e, at n, extending up the handle in a convenient manner to be operated by the hand while using the hoe.

In using this improvement the seed is placed in the box (l. The hoe is used in the ordinary way to spot the ground for the seed. The cord or wire m is pulled by the movement of the han d which moves forward the bar e, (having an aperture, g, so made as to adjust its size to the amount ot' seed required to be dropped at a time and in one plaee,) so as to bring the aperture g just outside of the box, (the chamber or aperture g by said movement being enlarged by the action of the elastic plate f,) allowing the seed freely and surely to drop in the required time, place, and quantity, and covered in the usual way. Thus it will be seen that a man having small grounds to cultivate can furnish himself with a planter combined with a hoe, that will do his work in a perfect and easy manner at a very small out lay, and which may be easily removed there.

from when not wanted for use.

tion conjointly in the manner and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and aiixed my seal this 19th day ot' April, 1860.

ZERAl-I B. BROWN. IL. s]

Witnesses:

C. BECKWITH, JEREMY W. BLIss. 

